Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: thepoodlebites

Check out this NPR article on the International Space Station:

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1232639289/international-space-station-retirement-space-stations-future

At the top of the article there is a picture of Earth from the ISS.

In the middle of the article there is another picture of the Earth from the ISS.

The ISS stays at the same height above the Earth so the pictures of the Earth’s shape should be similar.

The top picture shows a very gentle curving Earth.

The bottom picture shows a radically curving Earth.

Somebody is lying.

Caption on the first picture:

“The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab on Nov. 8, 2021.”

Caption on the second picture:

“The view from NASA spacewalker Thomas Marshburn’s camera points downward toward the ISS on December 2, 2021.”


249 posted on 09/18/2025 9:46:23 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 247 | View Replies ]


To: cgbg

Caption on the second picture:

“The view from NASA spacewalker Thomas Marshburn’s camera points downward toward the ISS on December 2, 2021.”

The second pix has the same curvature as the first, just has a wider angle. Put your thumbs over the second pix to narrow the field of view and compare with the first pix. It’s the same curvature of the Earth. The second pix does appear to contain a steeper angle but it’s an optical illusion.


251 posted on 09/19/2025 7:47:27 AM PDT by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 249 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson